Nobel Week
Stockholm
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2018
Detailed information for the media
December 5, 2018
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Content
The 2018 Nobel Laureates ........................................ 3
The 2018 Nobel Week ............................................6
Press Conferences .............................................. 6
Nobel Lectures ................................................. 8
Nobel Prize Concert
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Nobel Day at the Nobel Museum .................................9
Nobel Week Dialogue – Water Matters...........................10
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm................... 12
Presentation Speeches
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Musical Interludes
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This Year’s Floral Decorations, Concert Hall
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The Nobel Banquet in Stockholm................................. 14
Divertissement................................................ 16
This Year’s Floral Decorations, City Hall .........................20
Speeches of Thanks
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End of the Evening
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Nobel Diplomas and Medals .................................... 21
Previous Nobel Laureates
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The Nobel Week Concludes
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Follow the Nobel Prize
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The Nobel Prize Digital Channels
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Nobelprize.org ................................................24
Broadcasts on SVT
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International Distribution of the Programmes .................... 25
The Nobel Museum and the Nobel Center........................ 25
Historical Background........................................... 27
Preliminary Timetable for the 2018 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony..30
Seating Plan on the Stage, 2018 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony .....32
Preliminary Time Schedule for the 2018 Nobel Banquet
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Seating Plan for the 2018 Nobel Banquet, City Hall
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Contact Details
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The 2018 Nobel Laureates
The 2018 Laureates are 12 in number, including Denis Muwege and
Nadia Murad, who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1901,
the Nobel Prize has been awarded 590 times to 935 Laureates. Because
some have been awarded the prize twice, a total of 904 individuals and 24
organisations have received a Nobel Prize or the Sveriges Riksbank Prize
in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
All of the Laureates whose prizes are awarded in Stockholm on the
Nobel Day – December 10, 2018 – are presented below. Each Laureate
and their respective significant other may invite an ocial party of 14
people to the Nobel Week in Stockholm.
The Nobel Prize in Physics
2018 has been awarded with one half to
Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological
systems” and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna
Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical
pulses”
.
Dr Arthur Ashkin was born in 1922 in New York, NY, USA. He has been
aliated with Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA. Dr Ashkin is not
coming to Stockholm for reasons of health and will be represented by his
two sons and their families. His son Professor Michael Ashkin will accept
the prize on stage at the Concert Hall, and his friend René-Jean Essiambre
from Bell Laboratories will hold the Laureate’s Nobel Lecture on
December 8. The lecture will begin with a recently recorded video greeting
from Dr Ashkin.
Professor Gérard Mourou was born in 1944 in Albertville, France. He is
aliated with the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, and the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. He is arriving in Stockholm
accompanied by his family, including his wife Marcelle Mourou, three
children and other relatives, as well as colleagues and friends.
Professor Donna Strickland was born in 1959 in Guelph, ON, Canada.
She is aliated with the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON, Canada.
She is arriving in Stockholm accompanied by her family, including her
husband Dr Douglas Dykaar, their two children and other relatives, as
well as colleagues and friends.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2018 has been awarded with one
half to Frances H. Arnold “for the directed evolution of enzymes” and the
other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter “for the
phage display of peptides and antibodies”
.
Professor Frances H. Arnold was born in 1956 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
She is aliated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
Pasadena, CA, USA. She is arriving in Stockholm accompanied by her two
sons and other relatives, as well as colleagues and friends.
Professor George P. Smith was born in 1941 in Norwalk, CT, USA. He is
aliated with the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. He is
arriving in Stockholm accompanied by his family, including his wife
Professor Marjorie R. Sable, their two sons and other relatives, as well as
colleagues and friends.
Professor Sir Gregory P. Winter was born in 1951 in Leicester, United
Kingdom. He is aliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Cambridge, UK. He is arriving in Stockholm accompanied by his wife Dr
Marina Vaysburd and his four children, as well as colleagues and friends
including his ex-wife Fiona Winter.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2018 has been
divided equally between James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their
discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”
.
Professor James P. Allison was born in 1948 in Alice, TX, USA. He is
aliated with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX, USA and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy,
San Francisco, CA, USA. He is arriving in Stockholm accompanied by his
family, including his four children and wife Professor Padmanee Sharma,
and other relatives, as well as colleagues and friends.
Professor Tasuku Honjo was born in 1942 in Kyoto, Japan. He is
aliated with Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He is arriving in Stockholm
accompanied by his family, including his wife Shigeko Honjo, their two
children with significant others and two grandchildren, as well as
colleagues and friends.
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The Prize in Economic Sciences
2018 in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel has been divided equally between William D.
Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic
analysis”
and Paul M. Romer “for integrating technological innovations into
long-run macroeconomic analysis”
.
Professor William D. Nordhaus was born in 1941 in Albuquerque, NM,
USA. He is aliated with Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. He is
arriving in Stockholm accompanied by his family, including his wife
Assistant Clinical Professor Barbara Feise Nordhaus, their three children
and families of whom three are grandchildren, as well as colleagues and
friends.
Professor Paul M. Romer was born in 1955 in Denver, CO, USA. He is
aliated with the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU),
New York, NY, USA. He is arriving in Stockholm accompanied by his
family, including his partner Professor Caroline Weber, their two children
and other relatives, as well as colleagues and friends.
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The 2018 Nobel Week
2018 will begin with a visit to the Nobel Museum on
Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm’s Old Town, on December 6.
Here this year’s Laureates and their families will be welcomed to an
eventful week in Stockholm and will also meet as a group for the first
time. At the Museum, they can view the exhibition A Right to Freedom –
Martin Luther King Jr. The visit to the Nobel Museum will end with
Laureates autographing chairs at Bistro Nobel, in keeping with tradition,
and donating an artefact to the Nobel Museum’s collections.
Press Conferences
December 6
14.00
Press conference for the Laureates in Physiology or Medicine at the
Nobel Forum.
December 7
09.30
Press conference for the Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economic
Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Nobel Lectures
During the Nobel Week, in keeping with the statutes of the Nobel
Foundation, all the Laureates will hold a Nobel Lecture concerning the
discovery or achievements they have been rewarded for. With few
exceptions, this has been done since the first Nobel Prizes were awarded
in 1901. The Nobel Lectures will be open to the general public and free of
charge. It is not possible to reserve seats in the Aula Magna or in the Aula
Medica, so it is important to arrive early.
Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine
Aula Medica, Nobels Väg 6, Karolinska Institutet, Campus Solna,
December, 7
14.00
“Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy:
New Insights, Opportunities and Prospects for Cures”
James P. Allison
“Serendipities of Acquired Immunity”
Tasuku Honjo
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Nobel Lectures in Physics, Chemistry and Economy
Aula Magna, Stockholms University, December 8
09.00
Introduction to the 2018 Nobel and Prize Lectures
09.05–10.55
The Nobel Prize in Physics
“Optical Tweezers and their Application to Biological Systems”
René-Jean Essiambre (presenting the Nobel Lecture of Arthur Ashkin)
“Generating High-Intensity Ultrashort Optical Pulses”
Donna Strickland
“Passion for Extreme Light: For the Greatest Benet to Humankind”
Gérard Mourou
11.20–13.10
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life”
Frances H. Arnold
“Phage Display: Simple Evolution in a Petri Dish”
George P. Smith
“Harnessing Evolution to Make Medicines”
Sir Gregory P. Winter
14.00–15.15
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
in Memory of Alfred Nobel
“Climate Change: The Ultimate Challenge for Economics”
William D. Nordhaus
“On the Possibility of Progress”
Paul M. Romer
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Nobel Prize Concert
The Nobel Prize Concert will take place at 19.00 CET on December 8 at
the Stockholm Concert Hall. At this year’s concert, we will experience star
violinist Lisa Batiashvili as the soloist in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsy’s Violin
Concerto followed by Tchaikovsy’s Symphony No. 4. The Royal Stockholm
Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by American conductor Karina
Canellakis, the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam. The opening piece will be
Ann-Sofi Söderqvist’s Movements, a work premiered by the Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic last year.
The Nobel Prize Concert will be broadcast in its entirety starting at 20.00
CET on December 8 on Swedish Television’s SVT2 channel. The Nobel
Prize Concert is a joint project between Nobel Media and the Stockholm
Concert Hall. It is part of the ocial Nobel Week programme.
Nobel Day at the Nobel Museum
On December 10 the Nobel Day will be celebrated with free admission to the
entire Nobel Museum. During the day there will be extra Nobel Banquet tours
and guided tours of the exhibition A Right to Freedom – Martin Luther King Jr.
A Nobel lunch will be served, inspired by the Nobel Banquet in 1964, the year
that Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Advanced
reservations for the lunch are required. During the afternoon, Gustaf Lind,
Ambassador and Head of the Department for International Law, Human
Rights and Treaty Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Aairs, will give a
lecture on the theme of “Human Rights in a Changing Time”, marking the 70th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 2018 Prize
Award Ceremonies at both the Oslo City Hall and the Stockholm Concert Hall
will be live-streamed on a giant screen at the Nobel Museum.
The Exhibition A Right to Freedom – Martin Luther King, Jr. explores Dr
King’s life and contributions to the civil rights movement through videos,
photos, objects and interviews. The exhibition is aimed at stimulating
thoughts and discussions about human rights today. King pursued his
strugle by means of peaceful protests, activism and information, joining a
group of Nobel Laureates who have fought against injustice and oppression in
accordance with principles of non-violence. In designing the exhibition, the
Nobel Museum worked with the King Center, Herndon Home Museum and
Morehouse College in Atlanta. The exhibition can be visited throughout the
Nobel Week, with two special tours for the media: at 13.00 CET on December
5 and at 14.00 CET on December 8.
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Nobel Week Dialogue – Water Matters
On December 9, Nobel Laureates will exchange ideas with some of the
world’s most prominent opinion leaders and experts during the Nobel
Week Dialogue in Stockholm. This annual event during the Nobel Week
oers discussions about a theme – both on-site and online – aimed at
motivating people to seek knowledge, ask questions and strive to
understand and improve the world.
Water is necessary for human survival, and every drop is precious. How
does humanity impact our oceans? Can we change our ways of using
water? The theme “Water Matters” will be examined from many dierent
perspectives during this full-day seminar.
On stage at the Stockholm City Conference Center there will be lectures,
interviews and panel discussions of various exciting constellations. Seven
Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine –
including Steven Chu (Physics, 1997) and Andre Geim (Physics, 2010) –
will be attending, along with Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
“As a citizen I hope that all people, whether they are scientists or not, would
think about what is happening in the world around them,” says Steven Chu,
1997 Laureate in Physics.
Marina Abramović will deliver a performance lecture
World-famous performance artist Marina Abramović will present a newly
created 20-minute performance lecture during the Nobel Week Dialogue.
Late in November, she also launched an app called Rising, which enables
users to make conscious choices to influence the environment for the
better. The app was commissioned by Nobel Media and is being released
as a countdown to the artist’s participation at the December 9 event.
“Only when we change ourselves can we change others. Water matters.” says
Marina Abramović.
Marina Abramović is deeply engaged in issues related to water and climate
change. Her participation is one in a series of successful collaborations in
recent years − with artists and performers taking part in activities during
the Nobel Week. Previous collaborations have been carried out with Patti
Smith, Je Koons, Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor.
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Eight Laureates on hand during the Nobel Week Dialogue
The following Nobel Laureates will participate in the seminar: Steven Chu
(Physics 1997), Andre Geim (Physics 2010), Barry Sharpless (Chemistry
2001), Peter Agre (Chemistry 2003), Dan Shechtman (Chemistry 2011),
Stefan W. Hell (Chemistry 2014) and Randy Schekman (Physiology or
Medicine 2013). Also participating is Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of
the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which
was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Panellists
Here you will find the names of all participants in the panel discussions:
www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-week-dialogue/stockholm-2018/panellists/
Programme
You will find the programme for the Nobel Week Dialogue here:
www.nobelprize.org/water-matters
The event will be live-streamed all day on December 9 at
www.nobelweekdialogue.org
Pre-event
Discussions on the theme of water will begin with a “pre-event” in central
Stockholm on December 8. Participants will be Dan Shechtman, 2011
Laureate in Chemistry, along with Sandra Postel, Director and Founder of
the Global Water Policy Project, plus Sofie Allert and Angela Wul of the
Swedish Algae Factory.
Their discussion will deal with water from an innovation perspective. The
pre-event will take place at Norrsken House at 13.00 CET. It is free of
charge but pre-registration is required: www.norrskenhouse.org/events.
Lunchtime lecture at the University of Gothenburg
On December 8, Randy Schekman, 2013 Laureate in Physiology or
Medicine, will hold a lunchtime lecture at Wallenbergsalen, University of
Gothenburg.
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The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
in Stockholm
A complete programme and time schedule are attached
The Nobel Day, December 10, will begin with the traditional Nobel Prize
Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. There will be
presentation speeches about the year’s prizes before an audience of about
1,560 guests, who will then watch the Laureates as they receive their
medals and diplomas one by one from the hand of H.M. the King of
Sweden. The seats closest to the stage are reserved primarily for the
Laureates’ families, representatives of the prize-awarding institutions,
members of the Swedish government and Riksdag (Parliament) and the
diplomatic corps. Seated on the stage will be about 80 people. They are
members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly
of Karolinska Institutet and the Board of Directors of the Nobel
Foundation, as well as previous Laureates.
In front of them will sit the 2018 Laureates and members of Sweden’s
Royal Family: H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf, H.M. Queen Silvia, H.R.H.
Crown Princess Victoria and H.R.H. Prince Daniel. In the first row closest
to the stage will be H.R.H. Prince Carl-Philip and H.R.H. Princess Sofia.
Presentation Speeches
The Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, Professor Carl-
Henrik Heldin, will hold an opening address. After that, the year’s Nobel
Laureates and the Economics Prize Laureate will be presented.
The presentation speeches will take place as follows:
Physics: Professor Anders Irbäck
Chemistry: Professor Sara Snogerup Linse
Physiology or Medicine: Professor Klas Kärre
Economic Sciences: Professor John Hassler
The formal ceremony will be framed by brief musical interludes and floral
arrangements. When the ceremony is over and the Royal Family has left
the stage, family members and colleagues are welcomed onto the stage to
congratulate their Laureates.
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Musical Interludes
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of
conductor Dalia Stasevska, will provide musical interludes during the
award ceremony. The soloist at the award ceremony is Christina Nilsson,
soprano. They will perform music by the British composer Alice Mary
Smith, the American composer Charles T. Gries, and Richard Wagner,
among others.
This Year’s Floral Decorations
In homage to Alfred Nobel, who spent his final years in Sanremo, Italy,
where he died on December 10, 1896, Regione Liguria, the City of
Sanremo and the Chamber of Commerce of Riviere di Liguria send
flowers to decorate the Concert Hall and the City Hall in Stockholm every
year.
For the 18th consecutive year Helén Magnusson, chief florist at Hässelby
Blommor, has designed the floral decorations for the Nobel Prize Award
Ceremony. Together with 12 florists, she works for four days to create the
decorations that will adorn the stage at the Concert Hall.
The flowers grown in and donated from Sanremo are delivered on
December 4 to Hässelby Blommor in Järälla near Stockholm, where the
task of preparing the 25,000 flowers ahead of the decoration work begins
immediately.
The 2018 decorations are inspired by the shape of a leaf, and the florists
are working with bright green and yellow nuances, accented by orange, as
well as lush, chlorophyll-green leaves.
There will be about 300 kg of foliage and 25,000 flowers, including light
green, yellow and cream-coloured carnations, chrysanthemums, light
green-yellow cymbidium orchids, roses in dierent yellow and cream-
white nuances, yellow gerbera and germini, light green anthurium and
mimosa. The decorations on the wall behind the stage will highlight the
shape of a leaf in various nuances of green, yellow and orange. The floral
wall in the middle of the stage, which is 15 square metres in size, will be
decorated with 9,000 roses, carnations, germini and chrysanthemums in
yellow and cream-coloured nuances.
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The Nobel Banquet in Stockholm
The time schedule for the Banquet is attached
After the ceremony at the Concert Hall, it will be time for the evening’s
Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall. The banquet programme will
follow tradition and begin with the entry procession of the Royal Family
and other guests of honour down the grand stairway and into the Blue
Hall at 19.00 CET. Prior to this, the guests of honour will have been
presented to the Royal Family in the Prince’s Gallery of the City Hall.
Behind the Master of Ceremonies will be two female attendants followed
by H.M. the King with his dinner companion and H.M. the Queen with
Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the Board of the Nobel
Foundation and the host of the evening’s banquet. In 1901 the first Nobel
Banquet, held in the Hall of Mirrors of the Grand Hôtel, had 113 guests.
Today the Nobel Banquet is served to about 1,340 guests.
This year’s chef is Tom Sjöstedt and the year’s pastry chef is Daniel Roos,
both of them celebrated Swedish culinary innovators.
Tom Sjöstedt, who is responsible for the first course and the main course
for the second consecutive year, operates the Lilla Ego restaurant in
Stockholm together with Daniel Räms. Tom was named Sweden’s Chef of
the Year in 2008. He was a member of the Swedish Culinary Team in
2005−2012, including when the team won the gold medal at the 2012
Culinary Olympics.
The Nobel Banquet menu is based on top-quality ingredients and Swedish
flavours. Tom prefers to work with ingredients in their natural form
during the right season. In this year’s Banquet menu he lets vegetables
play an important role, and two dierent root vegetables are key
ingredients in the main course. Tom often works to build expectations by
introducing small surprises during the meal, which guests will experience
as the meal unfolds.
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Daniel Roos, who is in charge of the Nobel Banquet dessert for the fifth
consecutive year, was a member of the Swedish Culinary Team in
2009−2012, including when it won the gold medal at the 2012 Culinary
Olympics. He manages K-märkt Restaurant and K-märkt Patisserie &
Bageri. Daniel also created the dessert for the wedding of Sweden’s Crown
Princess Victoria in 2010.
The task of composing the menu for the Nobel Banquet has been
underway since early last spring, including a number of cooking and taste
tests.
The menu has been developed in close collaboration with the Nobel
Foundation’s gastronomic advisors: Fredrik Eriksson of Långbro
Värdshus and Restaurant Nationalmuseum, Artistic Leader of
Restaurangakademien; Gert Klötzke, Professor of Gastronomy at Umeå
University; and Gunnar Eriksson, Chef de Cuisine at Stadshus-
restauranger (City Hall Restaurants). The menu will be revealed only
when all guests have been seated at 19.00 CET.
The tables will be set with the Nobel tableware created for the 90th
anniversary of the Nobel Prize in 1991 by three Swedish designers, Karin
Björquist (Rörstrand/Gustavsberg), Gunnar Cyrén (Orrefors) and Ingrid
Dessau (Klässbols Linneväveri). The more than 60 tables in the Blue Hall
will be covered with some 500 metres of linen cloth, and the meticulous
table setting will comprise no fewer than some 9,540 porcelain pieces,
5,400 glasses and 9,450 items of cutlery. This will be the seventh year that
Stadshusrestauranger and its CEO Maria Stridh will be responsible for
presenting the Nobel Banquet. Chef de Cuisine for his sixteenth Nobel
Banquet is Gunnar Eriksson.
Those who will be working with the banquet meal during the evening
include a total of more than 40 chefs and 190 servers.
This year for the fifth time, the Nobel Banquet will serve the Nobel
Museum Tea Blend, which was created in honour of Alfred Nobel. The
Nobel Museum in Stockholm writes the following: “In honour of our
distinguished scientist, we have composed a special tea blend…. The blend
is based on a Chinese Keemun tea produced in Qimen County situated in
Anhui Province.” The Nobel Museum Tea Blend was created in
collaboration with the late tea specialist Vernon Mauris and is sold
exclusively at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm.
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Divertissement
On Courage
This year’s divertissement is about courage, and the background to the
evening’s programme is described by its creators as follows: “These are
times of irreversible change. Our climate is being threatened and our values
are being shaken to the core. We need to reflect on how we treat each other
and together nd a new way forward. This will take courage now, from
private individuals but also in a collective perspective.”
The focus of the divertissement is personal and altruistic courage, linked
among other things to this year’s Peace Prize and a call to celebrate and
honour women. It also recognises this year’s Nobel Laureates in
Physiology or Medicine, and the divertissement wishes to convey strength
and courage to everyone who is suering from disease and has lost hope:
“Let us talk to each other, let us listen and let us move towards a brighter
future, lled with empathy and endless courage.”
Mikael Karlsson
A Swedish-born composer who lives and works in New York, Mikael
writes music for opera, ballet, modern dance, orchestra and chamber
ensembles. His music is performed frequently at festivals, opera houses
and concert halls in Europe and the United States. In Sweden he is best
known for his ongoing collaboration with choreographer Alexander
Ekman. He worked with Anna von Hausswol on the full-length ballet
Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2015. In 2014 he
received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as “an
exceptional mid-career composer”.
Anna von Hausswolff
Anna is a musician who has worked in Gothenburg, Sweden, since 2009.
Her main instruments are the pipe organ and her voice. She tours all over
the world and has been part of many international collaborations. Last
summer Ann won praise for her set at the Montreux Jazz Festival, where
she opened for Nick Cave. She has released four albums, and she wrote
the music for a theatrical production of The Saga of Gösta Berling at the
Gothenburg City Theatre in 2017. She was also the solo vocalist in
Alexander Ekman’s ballet production Midsummer Night’s Dream. Anna
operates her own experimental label, Pomperipossa Records, and also
releases albums by other musical artists.
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Nicolas Le Riche
In August 2017 Nicolas Le Riche became Director of the Royal Swedish
Ballet. Before this he founded l’Atelier d’Art Chorégraphique (LAAC) at
the Théâtre Champs-Elysées in Paris. Throughout his dance career −
having won the rank of “danseur étoile”, the highest honour a French
dancer can earn − Le Riche was faithful to the Paris Opera Ballet, with
lead roles in classic and neoclassic as well as modern dance. Leading
choreographers including Rudolf Nureyev, Mats Ek, Jiri Kylián, William
Forsythe, Trisha Brown and Twyla Tharp created works for Le Riche, who
made guest appearances on such stages as the Royal Opera House in
London, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Mariinsy Theatre in Saint
Petersburg, La Scala in Milan, the New York City Ballet and the Royal
Danish Opera in Copenhagen. Nicolas Le Riche is a well-established
choreographer and has, among other distinctions, been named Chevalier
de l’ordre de la Légion d’honneur.
The Royal Swedish Orchestra
The Royal Swedish Orchestra is one of the world’s oldest orchestras. For
nearly 500 years it has played a central role in Swedish musical life,
starting in 1526 as the Royal Court orchestra and since 1773 as the Royal
Opera orchestra. Today it consists of 105 musicians. At its December 10
performance, 24 musicians are participating.
The Royal Swedish Opera Chorus
Sweden’s largest professional chorus is also one of the world’s oldest, with
a history dating back to 1773. The chorus was formed ahead of the
premier of the opera Thétis et Pelée on January 18, 1773 at Bollhuset,
Slottsbacken in Gamla stan (Stockholm’s Old Town). Of the chorus 54
permanent members, 10 choristers from the bass section are performing
during the evening.
James Grossmith
Grossmith has been the Chorus Master at the Royal Swedish Opera since
2014, after having served since 2005 as a Chorus Master and Conductor at
Scottish Opera. Before this (2004-05) he was Director of Choral Music at
the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), regularly
conducting the RSAMD symphony orchestra and chorus. After
completing his conducting studies in Glasgow, he received a number of
prizes and honours.
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The Royal Swedish Ballet
The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the world’s oldest ballet companies,
founded in 1773 by King Gustav III. Under the leadership of Nicolas Le
Riche, its dancers command an artistic breadth that ranges from genuine
classic ballet to neoclassic and modern dance. In addition to a large
number of international choreographers, such renowned Swedish masters
as Mats Ek, Alexander Ekman and Pär Isberg have left their own unique
impressions on the company.
Desislava Stoeva
First soloist dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet. Previously employed as a
principal dancer at the Finnish National Ballet. She has had lead roles in
Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Onegin and is currently performing the
lead role in The Nutcracker
.
Jérôme Marchand
Employed by the Royal Swedish Ballet since 2012 and appointed as
principal dancer in 2014. Previously aliated with Les Ballets de Monte
Carlo, he has worked with such leading choreographers as Jiri Kylián,
William Forsythe and Twyla Tharp. Mats Ek created the role of Mercutio
specially for Marchand in the Royal Swedish Ballet’s prize-winning
production of Juliet & Romeo
(2013).
Hlin Diego Hjálmarsdóttir
Ballet Master and Rehearsal Director for the divertissement. After
completing her education at the Royal Swedish Ballet, she worked at the
Icelandic Dance Company, the Göteborg Ballet and the Cullberg Ballet,
where she danced in works by Mats Ek, Johan Inger, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui,
Alexander Ekman, Cristal Pite and others.
Marie-Louise Sid-Sylwander
Producer of the divertissement. After a career as a first soloist dancer,
since 1996 she has worked in the artistic team of the Royal Swedish Ballet.
Sid-Sylwander assisted Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman in his
work with the ballets Tulle and Midsummer Night’s Dream
. She is a
producer and artistic director at Hammars Drama Productions AB.
Ingmar Bergman jr
Producer of the divertissement. Ingmar is Chairman of Hammars Drama
Productions AB and a board member of the Bergman Center Foundation,
Fårö.
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Hammars Drama Productions AB
A Stockholm-based production company for the performing arts, films
and TV programmes, focusing on music, choreography and dance. It most
recently co-produced (with Swedish Television) the prize-winning dance
film Ingmar Bergman Through the Choreographer’s Eye
.
Tove Asplind
Producer of the divertissement. Asplind has worked as a producer for
more than 20 years, focusing on such art forms as dance and mime. She
has worked with Cirkus Cirkör, Parkteatern, the Royal Dramatic Theatre
and the Drottningholm Palace Theatre. Since 2015 she has been a
producer at the Opera section of the Royal Swedish Opera.
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This Year’s Floral Decorations, City Hall
For the fourth consecutive year, Per Benjamin will be in charge of the
floral decorations at the City Hall. He won the Fleurop Interflora World
Cup in 2002 and has been active on the international scene since then.
The theme of this year’s floral decorations, like that of the divertissement,
is “Courage”. Per Benjamin is creating a modern interpretation of nature,
focusing on the shape of a leaf. He has selected numerous leaves of
dierent sizes, shapes and colours, which he is mixing with orchids,
buttercups, anemones and other flowers to create a tension and dynamic
between leaves.
Sanremo has donated the flowers used at the City Hall, as well as at the
Concert Hall. Per Benjamin chose carnations as the main flower for the
Banquet decorations, since carnations are among the best-known flowers
from the growers of Sanremo and Per’s personal favourite. This year
about 25,000 stems, flowers and pieces of foliage will be used to decorate
the City Hall.
Speeches of Thanks
Towards the end of the Banquet, students will assemble with massed
standards on the grand stairway and the balustrade above the Blue Hall.
Colleges and universities from all parts of Sweden will be represented
among the standards. When coee and liqueurs are served, Laureates will
hold speeches of thanks after being introduced by the evening’s
toastmaster, Sara Tabari. Only one Laureate from each prize category will
speak, in “Nobel order”, that is, in the order that Alfred Nobel listed the
prizes in his will:
Physics: Donna Strickland
Chemistry: Frances H. Arnold
Physiology or Medicine: Tusuku Honjo
Economic Sciences: William D. Nordhaus
End of the Evening
The Banquet will conclude at about 22.45 CET. Dancing will then begin
upstairs in the Golden Hall, with music by the Laszlo Royale Dance
Orchestra, featuring Malena Laszlo and Mikael Grahn.
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Nobel Diplomas and Medals
In the Golden Hall, the Nobel medals and diplomas will be shown in
display cases during the evening. This year Berndt Wennström did the art
work on the diplomas for the Laureates in Physics, Elsebeth Malmsten
created the art work on the diplomas for the Laureates in Chemistry and
Richard Vakil produced the art work on the diplomas for the Laureates in
Economic Sciences.
Marie A. Györi did the calligraphy for the Physics, Chemistry and
Economic Sciences diplomas, while Marianne Pettersson Soold did the
monograms. Susan Duvnäs was responsible for the calligraphy on the
diploma for the Laureates in Physiology or Medicine.
Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB – established in 1888 and located in
the Östermalm district of Stockholm – was in charge of binding all the
diplomas. The 2018 Nobel medals were made by Svenska Medalj in
Eskilstuna, Sweden. The cases in which the medals are kept were
handcrafted by Anders Eriksson’s atelier.
Previous Nobel Laureates
In 2018 a number of previous Laureates will attend the Nobel Prize Award
Ceremony and the Nobel Banquet. They are Steven Chu (Physics, 1997),
Andre Geim (Physics, 2010), Barry Sharpless (Chemistry, 2001), Peter
Agre (Chemistry, 2003), Stefan W. Hell (Chemistry, 2014), Bengt
Samuelsson (Physiology or Medicine, 1982), Louis J. Ignarro (Physiology
or Medicine, 1998), Randy Schekman (Physiology or Medicine, 2013) and
Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN which was awarded the 2017
Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Nobel Week Concludes
Videotaping of the TV programme Nobel Minds
Since the 1960s, during the Nobel Week the Laureates have gathered for a
round-table discussion for television, Nobel Minds
. The programme has a
popular science approach and examines general questions related to
science and research. The programme will be videotaped on December 12
in Grünewald Hall (Grünewaldssalen) at the Stockholm Concert Hall. The
audience will include a number of students as well as some of the
Laureates’ guests. The programme is a production of Swedish Television
and BBC World News. The discussion will be moderated by Zeinab
Badawi of the BBC.
The Laureates visit the Nobel Foundation
On December 11, 12 and 13, the Laureates will make individual visits to
the Nobel Foundation. Here they will retrieve their medals and diplomas,
which will have been displayed in the Golden Hall of the City Hall during
the Nobel Banquet. At the Nobel Foundation, they will also discuss the
details concerning the transfer of their prize money. On December 12, the
Laureates will be invited to a reception at the Nobel Foundation.
Nobel Laureates at the Swedish Riksdag
(Parliament)
All of Sweden’s MPs have been invited by the Speaker of Parliament to
meet two of the 2018 Laureates, Frances H. Arnold and Tasuku Honjo, on
December 11. The seminar is being organised by the Nobel Center and the
Swedish Society for MPs and Researchers (RIFO) and will focus on how
the path to a Nobel Prize may look and what role our politicians can play
in furthering research.
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School visits, University visits and Lucia celebrations
During their stay in Sweden, the Laureates will be invited to a number of
schools. From December 13 onward, Laureates will visit universities and
colleges. Many Laureates will visit Uppsala University. Lund University
will be visited by Laureates Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland, George P.
Smith and Sir Gregory Winter, while Chemistry Laureate Frances H.
Arnold will lecture at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers
University of Technology. The Laureates are also invited to attend the
Stockholm University Student Union’s Lucia Ball or the Medical Students’
Union Lucia Ball on the evening of December 13.
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Follow the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize Digital Channels
The Nobel Prize digital channels aim to engage, inspire and inform people
about the Nobel Prize and the major issues of our era related to science,
humanism and peace. Their ambition is to achieve a global reach, and
they have grown rapidly over the past two years. The Nobel Prize has
more than 4,100,000 Facebook followers and more than 400,000 on
Twitter. On Instagram, the number of followers is growing and currently
totals 180,000.
The digital channels have recently devoted editorial resources to
storytelling and explanations in video format, as well as live broadcasts
from meetings around the world and naturally from the announcements
of new Nobel Laureates. During this year’s Prize announcement period in
October, the Nobel Prize digital channels reached an average of 13 million
individuals per day.
The Nobelprize.org website contains ocial information about all the
Laureates since 1901. A new site with a greater emphasis on user-
friendliness and active storytelling was launched in time for the 2018
Nobel Prize announcements.
Nobelprize.org
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in Oslo and Stockholm will be
webcast live on the ocial website Nobelprize.org at 13.00 and 16.30 CET,
respectively, on December 10. The complete presentation speeches at the
Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies will be posted at the same times, and the
menu from the Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall will be
published at 19.00. Press photos of the various dishes served at the Nobel
Banquet will be published during the evening. The speeches of thanks
held by Laureates during the Banquet will be posted later the same
evening. However, the seating plan for the Table of Honour will be
published earlier, at 10.00 on December 9. The Nobel Lectures will also be
webcast live on Nobeprize.org at the above-stated times.
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Broadcasts on SVT
Sveriges Television (SVT) will broadcast live from the Nobel Prize Award
Ceremony and the Nobel Banquet. In addition to its live broadcasts from
the Stockholm Concert Hall and the Stockholm City Hall on December
10, SVT will broadcast its Nobelstudion
programme on December 5 and 6.
It will also broadcast portraits of the Laureates, their Nobel and Prize
Lectures and the Nobel Week Dialogue. The Nobel Prize Concert will be
broadcast at 20.00 on December 8. Nobel Minds will be shown on the SVT
2 channel at 20.00 on December 18.
International Distribution of the Programmes
International media that will broadcast television coverage from the
Nobel Day include the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Associated
Press Television News (APTN) and Thomson Reuters.
The Nobel Museum and the Nobel Center
The Nobel Prize shows that ideas can change the world. The courage,
creativity and perseverance of Nobel Laureates inspire us and give us
hope for the future. Based on the Nobel Prize’s unique combination of
fields – natural sciences, literature and peace – the Nobel Museum holds
exhibitions, school programmes, lectures and dialogues about the major
issues of our time.
Over the past 20 years, public activities related to the Nobel Prize have
expanded. They include school programmes for thousands of curious
students. Exhibitions, international meetings, digital channels and
activities in Stockholm and Oslo have helped bring about new encounters
between people.
During 2018 a number of seminars and panel discussions have been
organised to draw attention to how science makes a dierence in people’s
lives. Several Performance Lectures on topics ranging from the universe
to fear have been organised in collaboration with the Royal Dramatic
Theatre. During the announcement period of this year’s Nobel Prize in
early October, we organised seminars, a crash course in this year’s
scientific Nobel Prizes and talks by authors, enabling Stockholm residents
and tourists to both celebrate and learn more about the discoveries being
honoured this year.
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More than 350 teachers from 30 countries gathered in October for the
Nobel Prize Teacher Summit in Stockholm. It was the second year that the
global Nobel Prize network for teachers and school administrators held
such a meeting. This year’s theme was how we can promote democracy,
non-violence and sustainable development.
Today a lot of these activities take place at the Nobel Museum in
Stockholm’s Old Town. In order to bring together Nobel Prize-related
public activities and create a natural destination for people from all over
the world − tourists, Stockholm residents, researchers and school children
− a Nobel Center is being planned in the heart of Stockholm. It will enable
us to improve our accessibility and create opportunities for a larger
number of fruitful encounters between researchers and the general public,
commentators, writers, opinion leaders and experts.
www.nobelcenter.se
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Historical Background
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony assumed its fundamental shape as early
as 1901. During the early years, the programme was the same as today in
all essential respects, but there were dierences in the format of the
ceremony. Both the Laureates and the Royal Family sat in the seats closest
to the stage, and on the stage there was an orchestra or choir. There were
also floral decorations and the same bust of Alfred Nobel that is still being
used. In charge of the decorations was Palace Architect Agi Lindegren.
Until 1925, the Nobel Prize was awarded at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music, but when the Stockholm Concert Hall was completed in 1926 the
Nobel Prize began to be awarded there. This has been the case except in
1971 and 1972, when a renovation caused the Award Ceremony to move
first to Filadelfiayrkan, a large church in Stockholm, and then to
Stockholm International Fairs (then called S:t Eriksmässan) in Älvsjö
south of the city centre. In 1975 S:t Eriksmässan was used again, in
conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the Prize. In 1991 the Prize
Award Ceremony took place at the Ericsson Globe (then called the
Stockholm Globe Arena). During the years 1914–1919 and 1939–1944, the
Prize Award Ceremony was cancelled due to the world situation and in
1924 because no Laureates came to Stockholm.
In 1928 the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony was broadcast on the radio for
the first time, and as early as 1950 a trial television broadcast took place,
but the Ceremony has been broadcast on TV regularly since 1959. At the
early Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies, mainly Swedish music was played.
Over time, the organisers tried to adapt the choice of music to the
Laureates’ countries of birth, but today they look for a suitable theme in a
varied repertoire. At the opening and closing, the same pieces of music
recur: first the royal anthem Kungssången and then Mozart’s March
in D major, KV 249
when the Laureates enter. The ceremony closes with
the national anthem Du gamla, du fria and then The Queen of Sheba’s
Festivity March
by Hugo Alfvén.
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The Nobel Banquet
The Banquet following the Prize Award Ceremony has grown from a small
dinner for the Nobel Laureates and representatives of the prize-awarding
institutions into an internationally renowned celebration.
During the early decades, between 100 and 300 people were invited, and
the dinners consisted of five courses. They began with hors d’oeuvres or
soup, then fish, meat and fowl, plus dessert. As the number of guests has
increased, the number of courses has decreased, first to four and then to
the current three. The menus have also followed increasingly well-
thought-out themes based on Swedish cuisine.
Until 1933 the Banquet took place at the Grand Hôtel. As early as 1930 the
Banquet was held in the Golden Hall of the City Hall, but it moved back to
the Hall of Mirrors at the Grand. Starting in 1934, the Banquet has been
held at the Stockholm City Hall every year, first in the Golden Hall and
since 1974 in the Blue Hall. The exceptions were in 1924, when the
festivities were cancelled because all the Laureates were prevented from
attending; in 1956, when out of consideration for the political situation
(the Soviet Union’s military occupation of Hungary) the organisers chose
to hold a smaller dinner at the Grand Hall (Börssalen) of the Swedish
Academy; as well as during the war years 1914–1919 and 1939–1944.
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) is best known as the inventor of dynamite. He
was also a businessman with extensive international operations. He was
born in Stockholm, but spent most of his life outside the borders of
Sweden, in such places as St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Paris and Sanremo.
His life consisted largely of travel and work, and he never started a family.
As a young man, Nobel was interested in literature, but his education
focused on natural science. While staying in Paris, he came into contact
with nitroglycerine, an eective but dangerous explosive. Dynamite, a
mixture of nitroglycerine and kieselguhr (a kind of sand) was Nobel’s way
of making the explosive safer and easier to handle. This led to an
industrial breakthrough, and Nobel established more than 90 factories in
20 countries. During his lifetime, Nobel was already a philanthropist. In
particular, he was involved in the European peace movement. Nobel was
influenced by the ideals of the Enlightenment – which was apparent from
the will he signed in Paris on November 27, 1895. In the will, Nobel
stipulated that his fortune should be transformed into a fund, whose
interest should constitute prizes awarded to persons who “conferred the
greatest benefit to humankind”. The structure of the prize categories
shows the breadth of Nobel’s thinking. In order to create a more peaceful
and prosperous world, progress was needed in both science and literature,
as well as through political eorts.
Selecting the Laureates
The task of selecting Nobel Laureates is based on a nomination procedure
whose principles were devised during negotiations in 1897–1900. For
each prize category, there is a Nobel Committee, and in September this
committee sends out invitations to Academy members, university
professors, other researchers, parliamentarians, previous Laureates etc. to
submit nominations. These must be in the hands of the committee no
later than January 31. From February until early October, the prize-
awarding institutions work on evaluating the nominees. When a decision
is made, the Laureate is notified and then the general public at a press
conference. In 1968 Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank)
established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory
of Alfred Nobel, which is awarded at the same prize ceremony. The
Laureates are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but the
Prize is funded by Sveriges Riksbank.
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Preliminary Timetable for the
2018 Nobel Prize Award
Ceremony
16.30 Drumroll, Royal Family proceed to their seats onstage,
The Swedish royal anthem, Kungssången
16.31 March in D Major, KV 249 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Laureates proceed to the stage
16.35 Speech by Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin,
Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
16.42 Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy,
arranged by Lucien Caillet
PHYSICS
16.47 Presentation of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to
Dr Arthur Ashkin, Professor Gérard Mourou and
Professor Donna Strickland after a presentation speech by
Professor Anders Irbäck
16.54 The Lament of Ian the Proud from Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod
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by Charles T. Gries, soloist Christina Nilsson
CHEMISTRY
16.58 Presentation of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor
Frances H. Arnold, Professors George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P.
Winter after a presentation speech by Professor Sara Snogerup
Linse
17.05 Allegretto Amorevole from Symphony in C Minor by Alice Mary
Smith
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PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
17.11 Presentation of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
to Professors James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo after a
presentation speech by Professor Klas Kärre
17.18 Dich, teure Halle, Elisabeth’s Greeting from Tannhäuser by
Richard Wagner, soloist Christina Nilsson
ECONOMIC SCIENCES
17.22 Presentation of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbanks Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Professors William D.
Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer after a presentation speech by
Professor John Hassler
17.29 The Swedish national anthem Du gamla, Du fria
17.31 The Queen of Sheba’s Festivity March from The Prodigal Son by
Hugo Alfvén, played while the guests are leaving the auditorium
ca 17.34 The Ceremony ends
MUSIC PERFORMED BY:
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Dalia Stasevska
Soloist: Christina Nilsson
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Seating plan on the Stage,
2018 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
NOBEL
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Side Row Seat
H.M. The Queen Right 1
H.M. The King Right 2
H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria Right 3
H.R.H. Prince Daniel Right 4
Professor Grandin Karl Right 9
Professor Heldin Carl-Henrik Right 1 1
Professor Hansson K. Göran Right 1 2
Executive Director, Dr Heikensten Lars Right 1 3
Professor Danius Sara Right 1 4
M Sc Nicolin R. Tomas Right 1 5
Professor Perlmann Thomas Right 1 6
Professor Ingelman Gunnar Right 1 7
Professor von Heijne Gunnar Right 2 1
Professor Olsson Anders Right 2 2
Senior Advisor Jørstad Tone Right 2 3
Professor Botner Olga Right 2 4
Professor Larsson Mats Right 2 5
Professor Irbäck Anders Right 2 6
Professor Snogerup Linse Sara Right 2 7
Professor Ramström Olof Right 2 8
Professor Somfai Peter Right 2 9
Professor Hansson Thors Hans Right 2 10
Professor Larhammar Dan Right 2 11
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Side Row Seat
Professor Haviland B. David Right 3 1
Professor Danielsson Ulf Right 3 2
Professor Olsson Eva Right 3 3
Professor Gustafsson Claes Right 3 4
Professor Wedell Anna Right 3 5
Professor Smith Edvard Right 3 6
Professor Kärre Klas Right 3 7
Professor Hassler Arne John Right 3 8
Professor Krusell Per Right 3 9
Dr Björck Jonas Right 3 10
Professor Lidin Sven Right 3 11
Professor Brzezinski Peter Right 4 1
Professor Åqvist Johan Right 4 2
Professor Linke Heiner Right 4 3
Professor Strömberg Per Right 4 4
Professor Svensson Jakob Right 4 5
Professor Mörk Eva Right 4 6
Professor Persson Torsten Right 4 7
Professor Mourou Gérard Left 1
Professor Strickland Donna Left 2
Professor Arnold H. Frances Left 3
Professor Smith P. George Left
4
Sir Winter P. Gregory Left 5
Professor Allison P. James Left 6
Professor Honjo Tasuku Left 7
Professor Nordhaus D. William Left 8
Professor Romer M. Paul Left 9
Professor Ashkin Michael Left 2 1
Professor Samuelsson Bengt Left 2 2
Professor Chu Steven Left 2 3
Professor Ignarro J Louis Left 2 4
Professor Sharpless K. Barry Left 2 5
Dr Agre Peter Left 2 6
Professor Geim Andre Left 2 7
Professor Schekman W. Randy Left 2 8
Professor Hell W. Stefan Left 2 9
Executive Director Fihn Ramsay Beatrice Left 2 10
Professor Ernfors Patrik Left 3 1
Professor Höög Christer Left 3 2
Professor Kiehn Ole Left 3 3
Professor Larsson Nils-Göran Left 3 4
Professor Schneider Gunter Left 3 5
Professor Masucci Maria Left 3 6
Professor Andersson Jan Left 3
7
Professor Zierath R Juleen Left 3 8
Professor Frisén Jonas Left 3 9
Professor Haeggström Z. Jesper Left 3 10
Professor Holmdahl M:son Rikard Left 4 1
Professor Ibáñez Carlos Left 4 2
Professor Karlsson Hedestam Gunilla Left 4 3
Professor Kämpe Olle Left 4 4
Professor Fredriksson Peter Left 4 5
Professor Werner Ingrid Left 4 6
Professor Rootzén Holger Left 4 7
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Preliminary Time Schedule for the
2018 Nobel Banquet
18.30 Guests are welcomed into the Blue Hall and requested to take
their seats
19.03 Fanfares – Guests at the Table of Honour enter in procession to
organ and trumpet
19.13 Guests have taken their seats – champagne is served at the Table
of Honour
19.16 Fanfare – His Majesty’s toast is proposed by the host of the
evening’s events
19.18 Fanfare – A toast to Alfred Nobel’s memory is proposed by His
Majesty the King
19.20 Photo opportunity at the Table of Honour (2x2 min)
19.24 Divertissement I (6:30 min)
19.32 The first course is served − parade via the grand stairway
19.54 Photo opportunity at the Table of Honour (2x2 min)
20.21 Divertissement II (6:40 min)
20.38 The main course is served – parade via the grand stairway
21.15 The main course plates and cutlery are cleared
21.26 Dessert wine is served
21.41 Divertissement III (6:40 min)
About
21.48 Divertissement IV (4.30-5 min)
21.48 Dessert parade via the grand stairway
Coee and liqueur are served
22.29 The students of Sweden parade their flags, balustrade and grand
stairway
22.32 The Laureates’ speeches of thanks
About
22.52 A signal is given when the guests may rise from the table
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Seating Plan for the
2018 Nobel Banquet
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Contact Details
Country code for Sweden +46.
Omit the rst “0” in the area code when calling from abroad.
The Nobel Foundation
Mikael Östlund
Tel 070-568 38 06
mikael.ostlun[email protected]
Ebba Bourghardt
Tel 08-663 09 24
ebba.bourghar[email protected]
Chefs at the Nobel Banquet
Elin Bergqvist
Tel 08-586 218 97
elin.bergqvist@stadshusrestauranger.se
The Artists of the Nobel Diplomas
media@nobel.se
Tel 08-663 27 65
Floral Designers
Helén Magnusson
Tel 0703-10 34 41
helen.magnusson@hasselbyblommor.se
Per Benjamin
Divertissement
Marie-Louise Sid-Sylwander
Tel: 070-550 55 47
marie.louise.sid-sylwander@operan.se
Manufacturers of the Nobel Medals
Svenska Medalj AB, Erik Åberg
Tel 08-645 38 00 / 070-545 33 03
erik@svenskamedalj.se
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The Nobel Museum Press Center
Nobel Media (Nobel Week Dialogue)
Rebecka Oxelström
Tel 0734-12 66 75
rebecka.oxelstrom@nobelcenter.se
Contact Information for the Media
Jonna Petterson
Broadcast and Archive Sales
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jonna.petterson@nobel.se
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Nobel Prize Concert
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caroline.bure[email protected]
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Press Ocer
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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
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ann-mari.dumanski@nobel.se
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Fredsgatan 6
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The Nobel Foundation
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